By plujon
I recently upgraded an Ubuntu droplet from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS using sudo do-release-upgrade. The system seems fine after the upgrade except for 1 thing. It now takes 2 minutes for the network to start after a boot. The console shows:
[ OK ] Reached target Network.
[ ] A start job is running for Wait for Network to be Configured (47s / no limit)
/var/log/cloud-init-output.log contains:
2020-11-09 19:38:37,068 - util.py[WARNING]: Getting data from <class 'cloudinit.sources.DataSourceDigitalOcean.DataSourceDigitalOcean'> failed
Further digging shows:
$ cloud-id none
/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/ contains some files that are 4+ years old:
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1480 Nov 2 2016 93-digitalocean-cloud-config.cfg -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 95 Nov 2 2016 91-digitalocean-dpkg.cfg -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 200 Nov 2 2016 92-digitalocean-ds.cfg -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 167 Jan 14 2020 README -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2070 Aug 26 16:58 05_logging.cfg -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 104 Nov 9 19:36 90_dpkg.cfg
Are the files in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d supposed to be removed or updated at some point?
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Hi @plujon,
I usually remove them on all my droplets. Having said that, you should be able to create a disabled file for cloud-init which should resolve your issues without actually removing cloud-init. SSH to your droplet and run the following :
touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled
Then try to restart your network and see if it’s still taking some time to restart.
Restart, KDSys
Disabling cloud-init worked for me but wasn’t a solution. It seems the issue was also related to a random nubmer generation. I could skip the process by pressing lots of random keys on the recovery console.
Following this post I was able to find an automated solution: https://handyman.dulare.com/long-linux-boot-time-haveged-to-help/
sudo apt install haveged
sudo systemctl enable haveged
sudo systemctl start haveged
The upgrade process seems to leave the original version of /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py in place and then adds the new version as DataSourceDigitalOcean.py.distrib which doesn’t work with the new version of cloudinit putting the config into a fallback state.
What fixed it for me was to replace the file and restart.
sudo mv /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py.old
sudo mv /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py.distrib /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceDigitalOcean.py
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